Article Title：The role of religious and nationalist ethics in strategic leadership: The case of J. N. Tata
Abstract：
This paper examines the role that religious ethics, complemented by a nationalist principle, can play in a sustained exercise of strategic leadership, hypothesizing a positive association with a societal reputation for credibility or integrity. The key to this relation is the constraining effect on strategic or financial pressures, even if there is coherence in the long-term. J. N. Tata, the founder of Tata Industries who lived in British India, was a Parsee priest and an advocate for Indian national self-reliance and ultimately independence. Even as Tata's two ethics dovetailed with his business interests in the long-term, they conflicted sufficiently with the business calculus of some of his immediate and intermediate strategic interests such that he could enjoy a sterling societal reputation in India, his credibility transcending that of a businessman.
Keywords: ethics; India; Parsee; religion; reputation; strategic leadership; Tata
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026050230808
Source：JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
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